Everybody's jumping in with suggestions for a better command line. What about ways to know what you need to know when you need to know it?
Maybe we could figure out a thingy that watches what you're doing and finds ways to do it better.
Maybe we could figure out a thingy that watches what you're doing and finds ways to do it better.
For instance, I'm looking for an iPhone app that let's you take pictures of people, add names and details, and let's you browse them by picture. I bet something like it exists, but I can't find it.
To a certain extent, this is somewhere where GUIs out-perform command lines - the hierarchical menu system that shows you the functionality available in a way that's fairly easily searchable. Maybe you could implement some sort of tree-structured help on the CLI?
"I see you're trying to create an implementation of half of common lisp."